People ask all the time where the name "Hogs" comes from. Like most things associated with Bonfire, there is a story behind the name.

When Bonfire was still held on campus, off campus students were known simply as "Off Campus Aggies," or "OCA" for short. Sometime during the 1984 season, a couple of Off Campus Aggies were seen in a dirt pit by a passing miss priss. The girl's nose wrinkled in disdain at the site of the guys as she exclaimed something along the lines of "God, those guys look like a bunch of hogs rooting around in the mud!" As it so happened, the story of miss priss and her disgust became infamous, and the name "Hogs" stuck.

Today's Off Campus Hogs crew take both their name and inspiration from these crews of the past. As you can see on the leadership page, the old OCA Yellowpot line that began in 1981 has been passed on to the new OC crew.  The original Yellowpot from '99 was passed down in 2006 and remains with the crew.

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